Events
South Gloucestershire Heritage Partnership Meeting
Tuesday 29th October 2019 10.00 – 13.00
Free event
South Gloucestershire Council Offices (Ground Floor Rooms 12/13), Badminton Road, Yate, BS37 5AF
This meeting is about projects taking place in South Gloucestershire and organisations relating to local heritage.
You will be able to hear from South Gloucestershire staff about the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) Cultural Strategy and the Regional Cultural Compact, River Frome reconnecting heritage, the Kingswood High Street Project and the Second World War Stories Project.
Camilla Hale, Chair & Convenor will introduce us to The South West Heritage Trust Network (SWHTN) and Jasmine Loveys will describe the Winterbourne Medieval Barn Events and Activities Programme.
This is an opportunity to be involved and hear about examples of good practice and to talk about and share your heritage project through an update at the end, questions and networking. Do let me know if you wish to share about your heritage project - Jane.Marley@southglos.gov.uk
Yate Heritage Centre is open until 16.30, if you wish to visit.
To book a place and to see the agenda, please use this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/south-gloucestershire-heritage-partnership-meeting-tickets-71482515127
Jane Marley - Museums and Heritage Officer, South Gloucestershire Council.
Think Ink!
Saturday 2nd November 2019, 2 - 4pm.
Free event. No booking required.
Learn about the history of writing and try your hand at using an old style pen. Scribes in the past had to start again if they made a mistake or an unfortunate ink blot!
Find out how ink was made and learn the unpleasant truth about parchment, on which some of our oldest documents were written.
archives@gloucestershire.gov.uk 01452 425295
The Heritage Hub, Clarence Row, Alvin St, Gloucester, GL1 3DW
Memories Cafe
A warm welcome awaits anyone who would like the chance to meet old friends and make new ones. We will be remembering the Gloucester of the past, with a light-hearted look at items from the Archives own 'Memory bank'.
Sunday 3rd November and Sunday 1st December, 2.30 - 4pm.
Free event. Free drinks and cake.
At Gloucestershire Heritage Hub we strive to offer all our visitors a safe and friendly environment. Many of our staff and volunteers are Dementia Friends. We have parking on site and our facilities are accessible to all.
Katherine.O'Keefe@gloucestershire.gov.uk
FoGA - Go aloft in Gloucester Cathedral
TUESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2019
Afternoon visit to the Library and Archives, Tribune Gallery and Organ Loft.
2.15 Assemble in the South Porch
2.30 Library and Archives (including examples of early music manuscripts with Cathedral Librarian and Archivist, Rebecca Phillips)
3.15 Tribune Gallery
interactive exhibition
4.00 Organ Loft (Assistant Director of Music, Jonathan Hope, will demonstrate the organ’s capabilities. Gloucester Cathedral’s organ, first built in 1666 by Thomas Harris, has the only complete 17th-century cathedral organ case surviving in England
4.30–5.30 Tables reserved for tea in The Clementine café on the corner of Westgate Street and College Street
Please indicate if you wish to join us there
Cost: Members of FoGA £10.00, Guests £12.50 (Tea not included in cost)
Numbers for this visit are limited to 20
Priority booking for FoGA members from 10 October
booking open for guests from 21 October
Advance booking essential: forms available on www.foga.org.uk or at The HERITAGE HUB reception desk
Queries: contact Cherry Ann Knott 01453-762796 or email tunone@waitrose.com
An Archives Christmas!
Saturday 7th December 2019, 2pm-4pm.
Free event. No booking required
Join us for a festive gander at the origins of our Christmas traditions. How did local Gloucestershire folk celebrate the Midwinter feast? Find out about cards, carols, turkeys by post and the earliest written mention of Christmas in the county!
What present did Lord Blathwayte not give to Robert Crew in 1926? Why did the Codrington Family need 28 plum puddings? What was so memorable about Christmas 1675? Answers to all these and some Christmassy craft too!
archives@gloucestershire.gov.uk 01452 425295
The Heritage Hub, Clarence Row, Alvin St, Gloucester, GL1 3DW
FoGA events 2020
WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH
Afternoon visit to The Museum in the Park, Stroud
Talk by the collections officer: ‘Meet the Curators Past and Present’
Opportunity to explore the museum displays, walled garden and temporary exhibition ‘Endangered and Extinct’
Visit to the museum stores and archives
Tea and Cakes
APRIL/MAY
Gloucestershire’s influential 20th-century craftspeople
Proposed talk and visits – dates and details to follow
SUNDAY 14 JUNE
Mystery Tour
Another of historian John Chandler’s fascinating all-day coach tours –
Where will it be in 2020? Trust him, join us and find out!
Pick ups in Cheltenham and Gloucester
JULY
Lacock
Full day coach trip to see archives at Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre,
and visit Lacock Village, Abbey and Fox Talbot museum (photography) –
Date and details to be arranged
Watch for information on FoGA’s notice board in The Heritage Hub
Visit the website for further details and booking forms www.foga.org.uk
Local History Society Talks
Dates for your diary
Gloucester LHS
Talks are held in the Dunrossil Centre, Gloucestershire Archives, 7pm
Free for members, £3 for guests
Tuesday 5 November - John Putley, Gloucestershire Witches
Tuesday 3 December - Tony Condor, 'Gloucester Railways: Now and Then
Tuesday 4 February 2020 - Richard Goddard, 'Battle of Tewkesbury 1471'
Visit www.gloucesterlocalhistory.co.uk/ for more information
Maisemore LHS
Guests £3
Talks are held in the Main Hall of the Village Hall, 7.30pm
Thursday 21 November - Tony Condor, 'A City Fit for Heroes'
Thursday 12 December - Paul Evans 'Christmas'
Thursday 23 January 2020 - Ros Lane, 'Leadon Vale'
For additional information telephone - 01452 527341
Stroud LHS
Members £2.50, guests £3.50
Talks held at St Laurence Church Hall
Thursday 14 November, 7.30pm - AGM followed by Howard Beard, 'Paul Smith - another of Stroud's splendid Victorian photographers'
Sunday 8 December, 2.30pm - an entertainment by Kim Baker & Steve Hill, 'A Stroud Time Talk'. BOOKING ESSENTIAL.
Visit www.stroudlocalhistorysociety.org.uk/
National Family History Fairs 2020
Saturday 8th February - Family History Show South West, Bristol thefamilyhistoryshow.com/south-west/
Sat 21st March - Dorset Family History Fair & Family History Day www.dorsetfhs.org.uk/events-activities/family-history-day/
Friday 17th/Saturday 18th April - Family Tree Live, London www.family-tree.co.uk/family-tree-live/
Friday 26th/27th June - The Genealogy Show, Birmingham thegenealogyshow.uk/
Saturday 26th September - Family History Show, London thefamilyhistoryshow.com/london/